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    ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS

    A BRIEF OVERVIEW
    HOMER

    ¤  Homer lived between 800 and 900 BCE.

    ¤  He is the most famous writer from


    Ancient Greece. Homer wrote the
    Iliad and the Odyssey.

    ¤  Homer was the first person to record


    the oral epic poems that entertained
    and taught the Ancient Greeks.

    ¤  Homer also wrote poems about Greek


    gods and goddesses called Homeric Hymns.

    ¤  Very little is known about Homer. Some people question


    whether he actually existed or if several writers were grouped
    under his name.
    HESOID

    ¤  Hesoid wrote a century after Homer.

    ¤  His most famous work is Theogony,


    which is an account of the creation
    and evolution of the Greek gods.
    AESOP

    ¤  Aesop wrote his fables (“The Tortoise


    and the Hare,” “The Boy Who Cried
    Wolf”) around 500 BCE.

    ¤  Aesop may have been a freed slave


    of African descent, who lived in
    Greece.
    THE PLAYWRIGHTS

    ¤  Three major writers wrote the most


    famous plays (usually tragedies).

    ¤  Aeschylus

    ¤  Sophocles

    ¤  Euripides

    ¤  They lived around 450 BCE and


    battled with each other in
    dramaticvcompetitions.
    ROMAN WRITERS

    ¤  Ovid, who lived in 100 CE, is the


    most notable Roman writer. He
    updated many Greek myths to fit
    with Roman tastes.
    REMEMBER!!!

    ¤  The Greek Myths we read today are drawn from the previous
    sources among others!

    Ambrosian Iliad

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